European Patent Office

T 1452/15 (Cooling fan/BORGWARNER) of 10.01.2019

European Case Law Identifier
ECLI:EP:BA:2019:T145215.20190110
Date of decision
10 January 2019
Case number
T 1452/15
Petition for review of
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Application number
01918835.8
Language of proceedings
English
Distribution
No distribution (D)
OJ versions
No OJ links found
Other decisions for this case
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Abstracts for this decision
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Application title
COOLING FAN
Applicant name
BorgWarner, Inc.
Opponent name
MAHLE Behr GmbH & Co. KG
Board
3.2.04
Headnote
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Keywords
Novelty - main and first auxiliary requests (no)
Inventive step - 2nd auxiliary request (no) 3rd auxiliary request (yes)
Catchword
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Cited cases
T 0204/83
Citing cases
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Order

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The decision under appeal is set aside.

2. The case is remitted to the department of first instance with the order to maintain European patent No. 1208303 in amended form, on the basis of the following documents:

Claims:

Claims 1-7 of the third auxiliary request, filed with letter of 19 December 2014

Description:

Pages 2 and 3 as filed on 10 January 2019, during oral proceedings before the Board,

Pages 4-6 of the published patent specification

Drawings:

Figures 1-10c of the published patent specification.